Bernard R. Goldstein / Giora Hon
From Summetria to Symmetry: The Making of a Revolutionary Scientific Concept
- Springer Netherlands
- 2010
- Taschenbuch
- 352 Seiten
- ISBN 9789048178841
Many literary critics seem to think that an hypothesis about obscure and remote questions of history can be refuted by a simple demand for the production of more evidence than in fact exists. The demand is as easy to make as it is impossible to satisfy. But the true test of an hypothesis, if it cannot be shown to con?ict with known truths, is the number of facts that it correlates and explains. Francis M. Cornford [1914] 1934, 220. It was in the autumn of 1997 that the research project leading to this publication began. One of us [GH], while a visiting fellow at the Center
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